DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS ASS'N v. CITY OF DETROIT

Docket Nos. 103592, 103610, Calendar No. 7.

551 N.W.2d 349 (1996)

452 Mich. 339

DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION, et al., Charging Parties-Appellees, v. CITY OF DETROIT, Respondent Employer-Appellee, and City of Detroit Policemen And Firemen Retirement System Board of Trustees, Intervenor-Appellant. DETROIT POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION, et al., Charging Parties-Appellees, v. CITY OF DETROIT, Respondent Employer-Appellant, and City of Detroit Policemen and Firemen Retirement System Board of Trustees, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided July 16, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sachs, Waldman, O'Hare, Helveston, Bogas & McIntosh, P.C. by Theodore Sachs and Ronald Helveston, Detroit, Bernard Feldman, Southfield, and Gregory, Moore, Jeakle, Heinen, Ellison & Brooks, P.C. by James M. Moore, Detroit, for appellees.

Stringari, Fritz, Kreger, Ahearn & Crandall, P.C. by Brian S. Ahearn, Detroit, for intervenor-appellant.

City of Detroit Law Department by Phyllis A. James and Terri L. Renshaw, Detroit, for respondent.


OPINION

MICHAEL F. CAVANAGH, Justice.

The issue presented by this case is whether the parties' past practice is so widely acknowledged and mutually accepted that it amends the contradictory and unambiguous contract language in the collective bargaining agreement. Applying the majority's analysis and holding in the recently decided Port Huron Ed. Ass'n v. Port Huron School Dist., 452 Mich...

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